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Post subject: Re: Help please to identify 70s/80s stratocaster
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:59 pm
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Though the Standards and Elites had been officially discontinued in 1984, Fender Japan did their own versions having a 22-fret neck and a 9.5'' radius.

Both series were dropped in 1986.


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Post subject: Re: Help please to identify 70s/80s stratocaster
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:34 pm
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cvilleira wrote:
The revised Standards were junk!


The Freeflyte trem was a turkey but have you actually heard one of these guitars? I've mentioned the pickups a lot on this forum, they are without doubt the finest single coils I've ever heard in my life. I've had mine nearly 20 years and I won't sell it because it sounds better than any Strat I've ever played.

Don't take my word for it, here's the internet's second most opinionated guitarist. Even Scott Grove mistakenly refers to it as a Smith era Strat.


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Post subject: Re: Help please to identify 70s/80s stratocaster
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:35 pm
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GilgaFrank wrote:
cvilleira wrote:
The revised Standards were junk!


The Freeflyte trem was a turkey but have you actually heard one of these guitars? I've mentioned the pickups a lot on this forum, they are without doubt the finest single coils I've ever heard in my life. I've had mine nearly 20 years and I won't sell it because it sounds better than any Strat I've ever played.

Don't take my word for it, here's the internet's second most opinionated guitarist. Even Scott Grove mistakenly refers to it as a Smith era Strat.
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I have played several in the past and never impressed but there is always an extra tasty strawberry in every patch. Never let yours go Frank keep the tasty ones,
Smith Strats though have been good players from what I have played and set up in the past.

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Post subject: Re: Help please to identify 70s/80s stratocaster
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 3:54 am
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I've learnt something about the American strats form the 80s.

Thanks all.


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